# When do we stop wallowing in 9/11? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 7, 2011, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-we-stop-wallowing-in-9-11/595523 "2011-09-07T18:07:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-we-stop-wallowing-in-9-11/595523/261 "2011-09-14T03:34:00Z")
Gee whiz. I didn’t realize watching tragedy on TV could give you such a severe case of PTSD. Well, I hope you get it all worked out in therapy. Do you still get all weepy over Oklahoma City too? Or do you only cry over the tragedies the media prompt you to remember? ---
**Author:** ![FuriousGeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecae2f/32.png) [@FuriousGeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FuriousGeorge)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-we-stop-wallowing-in-9-11/595523/262 "2011-09-14T03:43:15Z")
> [@Spoke](#): > > Gee whiz. I didn’t realize watching tragedy on TV could give you such a severe case of PTSD. Well, I hope you get it all worked out in therapy. > > Do you still get all weepy over Oklahoma City too? Or is it only the tragedies the media tell you to remember? I hear what you are saying, Sparky. Man up. Get over it. However, what confuses me, I guess, is that my continued response, and the response of many many others, to the historical events in question is irrational, but your sense of offense and outrage because Precious can’t visit the Duke basketball website without seeing an ad IS completely rational. There’s a disconnect somehow. So ya know, man up. Get over it. ---
**Author:** ![Naxos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/50afbb/32.png) [@Naxos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Naxos)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-we-stop-wallowing-in-9-11/595523/263 "2011-09-14T03:54:44Z")
> [@Spoke](#): > > Do we really need a couple weeks of 9/11 reminiscences from the media? … Yes, you do. Because the more emotional you get while watching TV, the more likely it is for you to transfer your emotional need of attachment to the next commercial you see. It’s simple. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-we-stop-wallowing-in-9-11/595523/264 "2011-09-14T11:33:14Z")
> [@FuriousGeorge](#): > > However, what confuses me, I guess, is that my continued response, and the response of many many others, to the historical events in question is irrational, but your sense of offense and outrage because Precious can’t visit the Duke basketball website without seeing an ad IS completely rational. There’s a disconnect somehow. So ya know, man up. Get over it. I’ll tell you the same thing I told **Ravenman** : > [@Spoke](#): > > [M]aybe if you read the OP out loud to yourself, slowwwwly, it will help you process it. On the other hand, maybe you are just stupid. > > My concern is not for my own personal convenience or peace of mind (though the 9/11 overkill _is_ annoying). My concern is what this obsession says about our country, and whether it is an unhealthy obsession for us to indulge. Lingering national obsessions with past grievances have not, historically, led to good things. ---
**Author:** ![FuriousGeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecae2f/32.png) [@FuriousGeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FuriousGeorge)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-we-stop-wallowing-in-9-11/595523/265 "2011-09-14T14:10:27Z")
> [@Spoke](#): > > My concern is not for my own personal convenience or peace of mind (though the 9/11 overkill is annoying). My concern is what this obsession says about our country, and whether it is an unhealthy obsession for us to indulge. Lingering national obsessions with past grievances have not, historically, led to good things. Frankly, this statement is disingenuous horseshit. Your postings in this thread haven’t indicated some hand wringing of the world’s view and impressions of US citizens based on their over glurging of 9/11. Your postings read as if it has everything to do with your personal convenience, peace of mind and ability to fap to the high school stats of Duke’s newest point guard without the “intrustion” of some 9/11 memorial. You’ve taken this neanderthal posturing of “Man up, douchebag. Those fuckers died ten years ago. Why do you still care? I have a fever for some serious wanking and the only cure is more Coach K”. Sorry about that, Chief. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-we-stop-wallowing-in-9-11/595523/266 "2011-09-14T22:25:21Z")
Tune up your neurons and try to follow the progression: 1. I submit the OP stating my concern that wallowing in 9/11 is not good for us as a nation. 2. Several posters respond with “Just ignore it!” 3. Following the digression, I point out the impossibility of ignoring it, using the seemingly non-9/11 Duke basketball website as an example. 4. You have an emotional meltdown because of something you saw on TV ten years ago. What other countries think of us never entered into the discussion. So, I guess… 1. You post irrelevancies. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-we-stop-wallowing-in-9-11/595523.md?page=13)